Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
CHER
CHER
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If you’re waiting for someone to believe in you, you’ll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.
CherCher Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.
CherCher I’ve always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.
CherCher Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they’re doing is right.
CherCher If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
CherCher If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up.
CherCher I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.
CherCher I’ve never compromised who I am not ever. If I’ve gotten anywhere in my life it’s been on my own merits.
CherCher I’m scared to death of being poor. It’s like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It’s my pet paranoia.
CherCher Unless you’re willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.
CherCher The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.
CherCher If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
CherCher I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.
CherCher Come hell or water high you’ll never see me cry this is our last good bye.
CherCher You know, honey, husbands come and go but I’m still Cher at the end of the day.
CherCher Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.
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Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
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Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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AstaAsta We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.
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